<div dir="ltr">There's been some discussion and hope to aim for a SWORD 1.8.0 release for this spring or summer. Some of the features which are new in trunk and which can't be merged down to 1.7.3 that would point in that direction are:<div>
<br></div><div>Specified compression level for modules</div><div>LaTeX output support</div><div>bzip2/xz compression support</div><div>UTF8SCSU (Not sure - this is Chris Little's thing)</div><div>Increase MSVC version to 2013.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How much buy-in would there be for cutting a new 1-8 branch later this season or early next? Troy, Chris, and Peter are responsible for most or all of the above work so the decision would fall to them on how they feel these features are.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Greg</div></div>